Head south until you are under the Hawthorne Bridge again, where a path climbs up onto the sidewalk of the bridge, and will lead you back to your starting point. (It’s pronounced will-am-it, and rhymes with damm-it.) From the Hawthorne bridge, walk North along the riverfront to the Steel Bridge, where a low-level pedestrian and bicycle bridge will take you to the Eastside Esplanade. Many shops are on the 4th and 5th Avenue bus mall if it’s raining, consider Pioneer Place (between 3rd and 5th Avenues at Yamhill St), a fine three square-block, multi-story indoor mall with the usual signature stores (including an Apple Store) Go Shopping! There is no sales tax in Oregon. NE Alberta between 12th and 30th Streets NE. Galleries, sidewalk vendors and olive music. Thursday, 27th October is Last Thursday on Alberta. ![]() Juanita Ewing recommends a tour of the city with an eye for Public Art, from Trompe-l’œil murals to bronze animals in pools along Yamhill. Powell’s may well be the largest bookstore in the USA. Powell’s Technical Books (now called Powells 2), at 40 NW 10th Ave, just across the street from the main location Powell’s City of Books at 1005 W. Ground Kontrol a downtown “classic” coin-op video and pinball arcade. Multnomah Village and Hillsdale sidewalk cafe vibe in the SW suburbs. Visit the International Rose Test Garden on the way. Or walk uphill through Washington Park via Salmon Street and Park Place - about 2 miles from the Marriott. Bus 63 (weekdays only) connects to the MAX stations at Jeld-Wen field and Washington Park. Portland Japanese Garden is one of the best in the USA, with great views over the city. Student ID gets you a discount on admission. A city block with pagodas and water features it also contains tea house, where you can purchase an enormous range of teas and a few light snacks. NW 3rd and Everett - where the Perl district meets the Esplanade a haven of peace in downtown. Lan Su Chinese Garden, built by Suzhou classical gardeners. View Food Carts Portland in a larger map Places to Visit No choices, no substitutions, no regrets. Chef Naomi Pomeroy (recently seen on TV on Top Chef Masters) cooks an incredible prix fixe menu. Tim O’Conner writes: is pricey but worth it for the out of town foody. Take the Hawthorne Bus (number 14) to 37th Ave.īeast at 30th Ave at NE Killingsworth. Excellent neighborhood restaurant in the trendy Hawthorne district, at 1429 SE 37th Ave. Quality handmade Mexican food that doesn’t leave you feeling overstuffed.ģ doors down. Reservations recommended.įonda Rosa at 108 NE 28th Ave (at Couch, 1 block from the Burnside Bus number 20). The also have a late night bar menu, serving until midnight. Veritable Quandary at 1220 SW 1st Ave, is one of my favorite restaurants in downtown. Happy hour is a bargain - 16:30 to 18:30 and 22:00 to midnight (not on Friday).īistro Marquee at 200 SW Market closes at 20:30 and can be busy before an opera (it’s across from the opera house), but otherwise offers good food in an all-too hard to find environment where you can hear your friends talk. Portland City Grill Expensive restaurant located on the 30th floor of “Big Pink” (111 SW 5th Ave) with a fine view over the city. Don ’t miss their fabled Caramelized Onion Tart Burnside, on the Fourth Floor, was Sunset Magazine’s Best Wine Bar in 2009. Their omelets are probably bigger than your head and if you order coffee, you get cream in a baby bottle - Tim Chevalier They are vegetarian-friendly and have the best jukebox I’ve seen. It’s an almost-24-hour diner that’s a great place to see Portland at its finest, especially late at night. This lace is definitely working on "keeping Portland weird”. Within easy reach of the Marriott are Ringler’s Pub (the ground floor of the Crystal Ballroom), Ringler’s Annex in the historic Flatiron Building, and the Mission Theatre & Pub (a Remodeled evangelical mission). It’s a chain of 65 brewpubs, breweries, music venues, historic hotels, and theater pubs, many of them in quirky old buildings that probably would have been torn-down and re-developed if the McMenamin brothers hadn’t bought them and turned them into brewpubs. McMenamins is a Portland-are institution. ![]() This list is not intended to compete with them instead it offers some hints about places that Portlanders like to hang out, and things that we like to do. There are many good guides to Portland, both on paper and online - is hard to beat. SPLASH 2014 ( series) / Insider's Guide to Portland
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